Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-09-21
TRAINING HANDS AND HEAD.


Nhat Is tfs1nS AttoIbliilNtSu
Youths OF Hampton Institute.
These negro and Indian youths come with
no good background TO exercise its uncon-
scious but most potent influence III shaping
their hves-ralher the reverse is true This
whole life must be reformatory, an uplifting
out of dark and undesirable conditions and
tendencies There must be reform, not for
conscious misdoing, but for circumstancing
of misfortune, and not of fault Gen. Arm
strongs pupils are up at $50 in the morning,
put in ten solid hours of work manual and
with books, and go to bed at Q 80 Each hour
has its duty, Its occupation, OF its response
bility-and the vast machine is distinctly a
success.
As the negroes and Indians work side by
side on the farm and in the shops their
natural traits are conspicnously Illustrated.
The Indian is the quicker, the more agile on a
spurt; but his black brother has vastly more
staylng power The Indian has the more
able and nimbe legs, hut the negro is better
developed in the chest and arms-all because
Of very obvious reasons. Gen. Armstrong
saws his best students are those who work all
day and have only two hours for study at
night. The same thing made manhood more
robust IN the fine type Of men who worked
their way through college and are to-day
rather impatient that all boys are not put &c
the school of adv ,rsity which they remember
with pride.
Work and an atmosphere of moral refine
ment are doing much for these picked repre-
sentatives of the red and black, and it is i'll,
teresting to discover that the day scholars
tl,o IL, -,
turn out so well One side of their life let.
them down too much
The home farm employs thirteen student,
all day, with detail OF forty five who aver
age one and half days week; its products
are ten acres Of early peas, ten of Irish pota
toes, ninety of sweet potatoes, fifteen of oats
two of cabbage and onions, two Of sDinaCl
and kale: forty-four acres are seeded to clover
16f 10 corn fodder, forty six to rye, and III
acres are under cultivation in garden anC
orchard The Hemenway farm, about fiv,
miles distant, has ll2 acres in corn, forty
three in wheat, 100 III oats eighty in Glove
and 200 in pasture.
The Huntington industrial wOrkS-saw mil
and wood working shop-where 100000
| feet of pine, poplar and oak. brought in raft
| through the canal Of the Dismal swamp from
the forests of North Carolina and Virginia
have been won ked up in the year; the depart
| ment of household work, the caring for thi
| great family of 600, which offers a field TO
| training that housewives will appreciate; tn
dressmaking and tailoring departments
where uniforms. dresses and shirts are made
the printing office and bmderv, which ha
created a demand for colored printers tina
cannot he supplied-and where four years ar
required for mastering the art of bookmaking
the knitting room with its Lamb knitters, tha
afford means of self support, and stimulat
the quickness that piece work always begets
the engineers department, the Indian tran
ing shops, eight in ALL giving instructions
| as many trades - wool working, carving
carpenterimg. harness making, shoemakiuG
tmsmithug, painting and hlncksmithing, I'll
greenhouse and the garClen-these all attra,
and instruct the visitor.-Cor. Springtiel
Republican